Would Pope Francis be okay? The craze to rename everything comes to Princeton

Racist

Woodrow Wilson was 28th President of the United States, 13th president of Princeton University — and a racist.

When Wilson led the country from 1913 to 1921, he resegregated federal departments and sympathized with the KKK. Thus Princeton student protesters are demanding that the university strip his name from campus.

Why stop there? Let’s topple statutes of another racist, Teddy Roosevelt, and erase his name from, among many other places, the Museum of Natural History’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial.

After all, he called Caucasians “the forward race,” referred to Africans as “ape-like naked savages” and dishonorably discharged 167 black soldiers whose regiment was wrongly accused of shooting two white men in Texas.

And let’s rename Roosevelt Island because, in an era of lynchings across the South, FDR refused to sign a federal anti-lynching law. Oh, and he interned more than 100,000 Japanese Americans.

Ditto to casting into oblivion Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, both slave-holders, and Abraham Lincoln, who said “there is a physical difference between the white and black races that will forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and political equality.”

Come to think of it, how on Earth can we stomach living in a nation whose capital is named after George Washington?